Folgende Beiträge enthalten das Schlagwort: museums and collections

Fiat 500 F featured in “The Value of Good Design,” at New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Photos courtesy FCA. Like the Fiat 500 Topolino that preceded it, the Fiat 500 Nuovo — that debuted in Ju...

Joe Strayhorn in Corvair #6000. Photo courtesy Dave Newell. In the months leading up to the final day of production for the Chevrolet Corvair, General Motors fielded calls from dealers, executives, a...

Photo via Auburn Zoning Board. A year after announcing his retirement, Dean Kruse has sold the Kruse Museums property in Auburn, Indiana, to a trio of investors that includes his nephew, John Kruse. ...

The Corvette Hall of Fame. All images courtesy the National Corvette Museum. The Corvette Hall of Fame, located at the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, Kentucky, exists to recognize those w...

Photos by Christian Martin, courtesy Artcurial. Long considered one of the last great secrets of Italian sports car culture, the trio of uncirculated Serenissima sports cars still in the collection o...

The Cammack Tucker Gallery. Image courtesy AACA Museum, Inc. Seventy years after the closure of his namesake automobile company, and 63 years after his death in December 1956, Preston Tucker remains ...

At the Auburn Cord Duesenberg Automobile Museum. Photography by author unless otherwise noted. After a recent drought of classic car culture, today the Drive Home IV team drank from the firehose with...

Photos courtesy National Corvette Museum. To many Corvette owners, the idea, let alone the existence, of a Corvette driven by its front wheels likely amounts to blasphemy. To John Jacobi, it was just...

Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. There have been plenty of lame and forgettable Indy 500 pace cars, but only a few qualify as infamous, among them the Dodge Stealth R/T, the sports coupe slated to pac...

Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. There have been plenty of lame and forgettable Indy 500 pace cars, but only a few qualify as infamous, among them the Dodge Stealth R/T, the sports coupe slated to pac...

Charles Kettering gets all the credit for inventing the self-starter for internal combustion engines and thus making gasoline-engine cars the dominant mode of transport today. But as John Heitmann at...

Photo by Marco Verch. We can’t remember a year — at least in recent memory — that we were happier to see in the rearview mirror than 2018. From an automotive news perspective, it was the “dog’s break...

Photo courtesy Historic Electric Vehicle Foundation. At about 4,000 square feet, the Historic Electric Vehicle Foundation’s museum has only enough floor space for about a quarter of its collection. B...

Image courtesy Crawford Auto-Aviation Museum. In its short history, RADwood — the immersive show dedicated to cars, fashion, and music from the 1980s and 1990s — has expanded from a single event to a...

1980 Mercury Cosworth Capri. Photos by David Newhardt, courtesy Mecum Auctions. After a one-year absence, the Capri returned to Mercury dealers in 1979, this time as a badge-engineered Fox-body Ford ...

Bentley 4.5 liter. Photo by David LaChance. More than 240 years after the founding fathers met in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to sign King George’s walking papers, the Simeone Foundation Automotive M...

Photos courtesy World of Speed Motorsports Museum. We’ve written a bunch in recent years about the trials, tribulations, and, ultimately, triumphs that Danny Thompson and his Challenger 2 crew experi...

Tupelo Automobile Museum. Photos by Stephen Mancuso. Opened in 2002, the Tupelo Automobile Museum in Tupelo, Mississippi, was the dream of broadcast entrepreneur Frank K. Spain, who began collecting ...

The IMS Museum announced this week that it has digitized a good number of recordings of Indy 500 races past and is now offering the digital recordings for sale. * The story that Alex Pappademas wrote...

Roughly 20 Duesenbergs spanning the company’s 16 years of production will be on display (on a rotation basis) at the Gilmore Car Museum through Fall 2019. All images courtesy of the Gilmore Car Museu...

1966 Toyota Corolla. Photo courtesy Toyota Motor Corporation. Three vehicles, and three men, have been celebrated for their contributions to the auto industry in Japan. They are the 2018 inductees to...

Ford’s Cougar II concept on display in Dearborn in 2017. Photo by Barry Kluczyk. For our purposes, the word “lost” needs to be defined. Usually, “lost” is a descriptor applied to an object that no on...

Photo courtesy the Golden Gate Bridge, Highway District. Inspired by an Imbued With Hues colorized photo, The Old Motor set out to learn more about the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge. In the ...